Running Wonderland games without 3D acceleration?
Posted: Sat Mar 17, 2007 12:56 pm
Hello,
Quite a technical question coming up...
Is it at all possible to run any Wonderland game without an accelerated 3D graphics card? I'm not talking about whether it would run decently or even at a playable speed - I realise that these would depend on CPU performance. I mean, is there any way to persuade the game to even try to run? I find that the original Wonderland games say "Failed to create 3D scene" and Adventures gives me a message saying "Your Computer's 3D Graphics Drivers appear not to be functioning properly."
Presumably this is due to some specific check for the presence of 3D acceleration, so I am asking whether there is any way to make the game attempt to run without it. Please do not start telling me about updated video drivers, new video cards, etc. I am trying to run the games in VMware on Linux, so that is not an option. There is some experimental 3D acceleration support, and I will continue trying to get that to work too, but I would like to see whether performance would be acceptable without.
So if anyone knows a way to make Wonderland games load without 3D acceleration, I would greatly appreciate that information. Patrick, if you know how to do this, or if you would be willing to provide some way to do it in a future update, that would be very kind of you. I realise that the check may be performed in some layer outside your control, so don't worry if it can't easily be removed, but it would be nice if I could have this so that I did not have to reboot into Windows whenever I want to play Wonderland.
Note: An alternative which would probably work just as well is if there is a "fake accelerated 3D" driver for Windows. Does anyone know of such a thing?
Quite a technical question coming up...
Is it at all possible to run any Wonderland game without an accelerated 3D graphics card? I'm not talking about whether it would run decently or even at a playable speed - I realise that these would depend on CPU performance. I mean, is there any way to persuade the game to even try to run? I find that the original Wonderland games say "Failed to create 3D scene" and Adventures gives me a message saying "Your Computer's 3D Graphics Drivers appear not to be functioning properly."
Presumably this is due to some specific check for the presence of 3D acceleration, so I am asking whether there is any way to make the game attempt to run without it. Please do not start telling me about updated video drivers, new video cards, etc. I am trying to run the games in VMware on Linux, so that is not an option. There is some experimental 3D acceleration support, and I will continue trying to get that to work too, but I would like to see whether performance would be acceptable without.
So if anyone knows a way to make Wonderland games load without 3D acceleration, I would greatly appreciate that information. Patrick, if you know how to do this, or if you would be willing to provide some way to do it in a future update, that would be very kind of you. I realise that the check may be performed in some layer outside your control, so don't worry if it can't easily be removed, but it would be nice if I could have this so that I did not have to reboot into Windows whenever I want to play Wonderland.
Note: An alternative which would probably work just as well is if there is a "fake accelerated 3D" driver for Windows. Does anyone know of such a thing?
